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Position: Porter

Forward Air is seeking a dependable and experienced Porter to manage day-time cleanliness, functionality, and preventative maintenance tasks at our terminal in Forest Park, GA . This role is essential to maintaining a clean, safe, and well-functioning facility that supports overall employee productivity and satisfaction. Responsibilities include routine cleaning, minor maintenance, and ensuring all areas of the terminal remain in top condition throughout the day.

Core Responsibilities & Duties:

+ Maintain ethical, professional, and courteous relations with contractors and employees.

+ Wash & sanitize contact surfaces

+ Empty trash canisters as needed

+ Clean all spills/messes in and around the center (and parking lot)

+ Keep our dumpster area, parking lot, sidewalk, etc., free of debris

+ Ensures items like vending machines and coffee dispensers are adequately serviced for continuing operations.

+ Operate equipment as necessary within the guidelines set forth by Management to assure proper building functions and integrity.

+ Always maintain professional appearance and manner while on-site.

+ Assists in complying with all City, State and Federal safety and environmental laws, codes, standards, and regulations.

+ Performs general maintenance and limited operations of the HVAC equipment.

+ Assists in ordering, stocking, and inventory of base building lighting and ballasts while maintaining inventory of lamps and ballasts.

+ Maintains all lighting and ceiling tile requests.

+ Ensures day-time stocking of all shared paper towel/napkin services

+ Ensures routine inspection and as-needed cleaning of restrooms (to subsidize nightly vendor cleaning)

+ Perform occasional preventative maintenance of shared spaces.

+ Ensures hazardous waste items are properly disposed of.

+ Helps maintain ceiling tile inventory and replaces damaged tile, as necessary.

Qualifications:

+ Climb up and down stairs and ladders and, with training, utilize an aerial lift.

+ Lift 25 lbs. or more.

+ Work standing all day.

+ Access remote work areas, i.e., crawl spaces, roofs.

+ Utilize full manual dexterity (i.e., sitting, squatting, bending, crawling, kneeling, lifting, walking, manipulating tools with limbs extended).

+ Meet attendance requirements.

+ Read and use shop manuals and electrical drawings.

+ Read and use all types of test equipment, analog digital multi-meters, pressure, and temperature indicating and recording devices, air flow measuring devices, and leak detection devices.

+ Work overtime as business needs deem appropriate.

Skills

+ Basic computer skills and ability to use spreadsheet programs.

+ Ideal candidate will possess a “can do” attitude with a “will do” work ethic

+ The ability to think analytically and creatively while maintaining an intense attention to detail

+ Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of management

+ Excellent communication and problem-solving skills

Forward Air is an Equal Opportunity employer.

About Us

Since 1990, Forward Air has been a leading provider of ground transportation and related logistics services to the North American air freight and expedited LTL market. We offer surface shipping on an accelerated “time-definite” basis, delivering cargo at a specific time, but under less time-sensitive situations – supplying you with a cost effective, reliable alternative to air transportation. We work with companies of all sizes to develop tangible advantages and build the best products to meet your specific needs. Forward Air presents to the wholesale transportation community (logistics companies, freight forwarders, integrated air cargo carriers, passenger/ cargo airlines, and non-traditional shippers), a single-source provider that can deliver more supply chain services and a superior menu of choices. Throughout the years we have added supplementary lines to our linehaul service, such as full truckload operations (Truckload Services), final-mile coverage (Complete® Cartage), and an Airline Logistics program, and we will continue to expand our services to meet the changing needs and growth of our customer base.

Forward Air is structured to optimize both savings and service to our customers. Direct partnerships with owner-operators and other surface transportation providers, enable us to remain cost-competitive. The Forward Air network is designed with over 90 facilities located at or near major U.S. and Canadian airports, 12 regional sort centers and over 300 beyond points (secondary airports provided through our Complete Cartage service), creating one of the most comprehensive linehaul networks in the industry.

Ranked 3rd in Newsweeks 2022 "Americas Most Trustworthy Companies (https://www.newsweek.com/americas-most-trustworthy-companies-2022/transport-logistics-packaging) " publication

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